by aricaribe | Aug 16, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper – The algorithm is bullying you Paris, France I hate you, internet. But I also kind of love you. Because even while you numb our senses and oversimplify our problems, sometimes you still connect people in the right ways....
by aricaribe | Aug 9, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper – Birth Year Wine Paris, France “Plant a tree, write a book, have a child.” José Martí’s old line has chased me for years—part pep‑talk, part checklist. A friend once warned, “Start with the kid and you’ll never get to...
by aricaribe | Jul 28, 2025 | Sidebar, Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper -Your taste evolves. Your instinct sharpens. Sonoma, California Three out of four people say they prefer old shows and movies over the new stuff on Netflix. I’m one of them. Makes sense. The new stuff tries so hard to impress....
by aricaribe | Jul 28, 2025 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper – Do Wine Scores matter? Paris, France Dear Reader, The wines all had one thing in common: scores so high you’d think they’d cure disease. 98,99,100. I was in New York, tasting them one by one – row after row of...
by aricaribe | Jul 25, 2025 | Tasting, The Wine Explorers Letter, Wine Education
What makes wine (and life) more memorable? A Report From Wine Explorer Diego Samper Last week, my cousin flew in from Hong Kong and—like two of our previous house guests—made his way to one of the most talked-about bakeries in Paris: Cedric Grolet. You may have heard...
